Life's Unfairness, #2:

"Time and chance happeneth to them all."  (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

Modern versions of that observation by Solomon abound:

"That's the way cookie crumbles." or,

"The cake breaks."

One wag observed, "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure."

Another said, "This world is a mess.  None of us is going to make it out alive."

Brendan Gill, said, "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

James Barrie concluded that, "Life is a long lesson in humility."

Anyone who thinks that life is predictable and that it rewards those who ought to be rewarded had

 better stay in bed.  And even that might not work.

Life isn't fair.  We cry out for an answer as to why bad things happen to good people.  Since I am so often obviously undeserving of the blessings I receive, I generally don't clamor for an answer to the inverse, but often good things befall real losers.  Life isn't fair.

One of the points of honesty about the Bible is that it makes no claim for life's fairness.  I quoted Ecclesiastes above.  Just before Jesus suffered the preeminent unfairness of all time He warned His followers that they would be persecuted (John 15:20 &16:33), later the Apostle Paul said the same (2 Timothy 3:12).

The present condition of this world is "groaning and travailing"  (Romans 8:22).  God isn't done yet.  

The patriarch, Joseph, certainly met with life's vagaries:

• A dad with poor parenting skills.
• Killer good-looks.
• Finding his brothers near a caravan route.
• The fact that neither TV nor soap-operas had yet been invented, compelling Mrs. Potiphar to look for a real-life outlet for her "Real Housewives of Egypt" fantasy.
• Etc.
• Etc.

Sure Joseph did some dumb things.  He would have been wise to keep his dreams to himself and maybe he should have saved that fancy coat for special occasions (Genesis 37) but come on.  Life smacked Joseph awfully hard for some immature behavior.

Life is like that.

In the end, though, Joseph affirmed God's goodness.  

God is the one delivers us from this world.

It's STTA. 

You'll find some resources that explain that deliverance here.